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On 15 June 2006 the National Assembly of Armenia adopted in the third and final reading the new Statute “On Copyright and Related Rights”. The Statute contains a number of provisions on media activities that are mostly similar to the stipulations of the previous law of 8 December 1999 and international covenants. Article 51 of the Statute (“Rights of Broadcasting Organization”) stipulates that the broadcasting organization has a right to use its programme in any form and to receive remuneration for any form of use of a programme except in the cases provided for by this Statute. The broadcasting...

On 27 November 2005, a constitutional referendum was held in Armenia. According to official information the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia was amended by the majority of votes. The changes that were thus introduced aim mainly at the reallocation of powers between legislative and executive authorities. At the same time the Act includes a number of provisions regulating the activities of the mass media. Some of them are to be found in chapter 1 (Fundamentals of the Constitutional System), some are in chapter 2 dealing with rights and freedoms of Armenian citizens, and some more in the articles...

On 14 January 2004, the President of Armenia signed the Statute of the Republic of Armenia "On Mass Information". This statute was adopted on 12 December 2003 by the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia. The new act replaces the Statute "On the Press and Other Mass Media" of 8 October 1991. The Statute regulates relations in the field of mass information, provides for guarantees for the right to freedom of speech, of accreditation of the press and of the right to refutation and reply. It also establishes the grounds for relief of a mass medium from liability. The Statute defines a mass medium...

On 23 October 2003, President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia signed the Statute "On Freedom of Information", adopted unanimously on 23 September 2003 by the National Assembly (parliament) of Armenia. The Statute regulates relations in the sphere of information, determines the powers of authorities that oversee the free provision of information to the public, as well as the procedure, methods and conditions of access to information. The Statute shall be binding on government authorities, bodies of self-government, state institutions, organisations financed from the national budget, as well as so-called...

On 9 September 2000, the President of the Republic of Armenia signed the Act on Television and Radio adopted by the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia. The Act regulates the procedures for licensing and establishment, as well as the activities of television and radio broadcasting companies. It determines the structure of the national broadcasting system, providing for the co-existence of commercial and public broadcasting companies. The State must ensure that at least one radio and one television programme of the Public Broadcasting Company is received in all the territory of Armenia (Art.4)....